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how far do you have to be to see heartbeat?

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im bleeding and having bad cramps. im only nearly 5 weeks!i have had two miscarages before and feel like this might be happening again! last was in june! both times i was between 7 and 8 weeks!i am having no symptoms of being pregnant? i did at this stage with my two girls that were fine pregnancies? really worried but i dont think i will find any thing out if i go to doc's!i cant help worrying about eptopic pregnancies??
please can anyone tell me their stories or comments??
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I have had one missed miscarriage. I thought I was 11 weeks, but I lost the baby at 6 with no symptoms of miscarriage. I am now pregnant again and well a bit nervous. Started spotting last week, had some back pain, and cramping and was 100% sure that I was miscarrying. I went into the ER in tears. They told me I was spotting because my cervix was changing shape (this was determined by a pelvic exam, that I had a UTI (which was causing the back pain), my cervix was closed, and I had a sonogram. The doctor was able to see a heart beat and they clocked me at 5 weeks 5 days. They were not able to get a "number" of heart beats, but that he did see a heart beat. I am going in tomorrow (5 days later) to have another ultrasound and make sure that everything is going well. I am also on antibiotics for the UTI. Misscarriages are devasting. If this happens to you, ask your doctor about grieving as they will be able to give you good info. In the meantime, try to stay unstressed! Better for you!

I went to the doctor for spotting. He sent me for an ultra sound. No heartbeat. This is Thursday and I have to wait to be seen on Monday for another ultrasound and then a doctor appointment right after. If there is no heart beat then it is registered as a miscarriage. This is scary because I have had a still born in the past.

The doctor took an hour to find my babies heartbeat at my first ultrasound...at 8 weeks. Don't worry, if they suspect an eptopic pregnancy then they may search other places with the "Ultrasound probe thingy" just to ensure that the baby doesn't show up anywhere else. They did that for me in the ER at 7 weeks because I was a candidate for an eptopic pregnancy apparently and had some cramping. You should always keep in touch with your OBGYN, if you dont like them or don't think they are helpful then find another. Look until you are satisfied. But the OBGYN is the only person who definitely keeps all your records in one place and knows your history, different ERs do not keep in touch with each other all the time so they don't have your record and will just do the same tests over again.

My songorapher has got me terrified. There were questions as to my ovulation from the start (it was delayed by four weeks. For the last several wks. I have been getting an u/s and there was no hearbeat at any of them but my levels kept rising. Yesterday found out in u/s that we have twins measuring 6wk. 1 day with no heartbeat being seen but got the blood work today and my levels are dropping although I'm not having any pain or bleeding and am still throwing up and am extremely tired. The doctor and sonographer think I'm having a missed miscarriage.

I was having abdominal cramping and went to the doctor and did an ultrasound at 5 weeks and 5 days and you could not even see the baby or the heartbeat, the doctor said it was too soon. We went back to the doctor at 7 weeks and was able to see the heartbeat. Everything was fine. Keep in contact with your doctor-- there are medications that he can put you on to help prevent miscarriage.

Definitely keep in contact with your doc...especially if you experience any pain. A blood test should be able to detect HcG levels that HPTs wouldn't necessarily at 5 weeks. HcG levels are supposed to double or triple every 2-3 days, by what I hear. I didn't have "pregnancy symptoms" early on with my second child either, so doubted if I was really pregnant--as signs were REALLY defined with my first. ALL PREGNANCIES are truly different. Just listen to your body. You know it better than anyone else.

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